How to avoid running a residential proxy (especially on Android phones)? [LWN.net]

How to avoid running a residential proxy (especially on Android phones)?

Posted Jul 10, 2026 20:26 UTC (Fri) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359)
In reply to: How to avoid running a residential proxy (especially on Android phones)? by KJ7RRV
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation

TEMU is rumoured to contain one. AFAIHH it just runs in the foreground while the device users browse its marketplace.

Note this is hearsay. I have not installed that äpp nor sniffed its traffic myself. But it was the first one where I heard about what is now called residential proxies, via “trojaned” äpps, and from multiple sources.

I’m sure the “link fetchers” from GAFAM äpps can also occasionally do that…

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